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SPECIAL TO-DAY

WOOL STOCKINETTE

JUMPER SUITS

& DRESSES

IN LATEST COLOURINGS

FROM

$35

.00

LANE, CRAWFORD'S

LADIES' SALON.

PAMELA

New goods at

Sale Prices.

Hand-

embroidered

Georgette

Frocks.

Very suitable for after- ECOA wear now and in the Autuma.

Also a new stock of Artificial Flowers.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23rd, 1927.

22, QUEEN'S ROAD, CENTRAL

SHINGLING WAVING MANICURING

The promptest and most courteous service in Town.

CAMPBELL MOORE.

19, Queen's Road Central (1st floor) OPPOSITE COLONIAL DISPENSARY.

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MADAME R. SARRAULT

No. 10, Ice House Street.

MRS. ROBINSON.

THE "SAC A MAIN."

"The Swiss Family Robinson." would bavo fared, badly without Mrs Robinson's bag which that

thoughtful lady bad filled with a

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THE VOICE OF THE

TURTLE.

THOSE LOVELY LUXUBIES,

With the coming of the cooler weather comes the wedding season: From the point of view of clothes

The

WOMAN'S PAGE

SOME JAPANESE SCREENS.

A GRACIOUS WEAKNESS.

FLOWERS AND FROCKS.

corn

violets and the newest button holes, quaint little bunches of field flowers, butter cupa and daisies, flowers and vetch, to bloom on the shoulders of the last trocks of summer,

You will, I am sure, have seen the charming new china which Mr

Those were in the window. In the Komor has just received from

wardrobe, I found some evening are the teasets of which he tells Japan.

Among the consignment,

Pamela, as perhaps you know, is frocks of embroidered georgette.

gowns and a few charming little. mo be sold T8 acts in ten days: If opening her new premises in Aator There was one in pale pink em- you have not done so you should House on October 1st. She had not braidered in crise and piped with selection of a ship's stores from wheat seed to geedlen, before they

it seems a particularly happy time even then it is possible that stock until the removal, but Pameln broidered with coarse white silk. take a stroll down Chater Road. intended to show any of her new blue, and another in pea green m quitted the wreck. She did not in of year for the bride. Since we you have not been up to "the sane is a woman with a woman's weak-A lovely wedding dress of soft ludes Bible. because her husband,

have so long hot season, there tuary to look at the wonderfulness, so she opened the boxes. white satin, most cunningly cut and Hittle Francia habitually car-

must be a certain sameness about Japanese screens there.

And having opened them, she could with a wrap-over circular skirt ried them, if my memory is correct, summer dresses, but to be some of them dirty and delapidat again, so they are to be found in embroidered bandeau to accompany Mr. Komer found these in Japan, not bear to hide the treasures away forming a Cleopatra belt, has a pearl we are all Mrs. Robinsons to-day. getting a trousscar just as the fore-ed, and has had them cleaned and Queen's Road now. A big moss. Worn with either a tulle or

runners of the winter mode are possible to find such work to-day, with lovely Bowers, roses, orchids, gracious wedding outft,

remounted. It would be almost im- Lined tray adoros the window filled lace veil it would make a very reaching the Colony offers an "op" for alas even in the patient East portunity for buying clothes which the gospel of rush and get-rich- shall be new in every sense of the quick has found converts, and such word.

marvellously fine needlework can only be the reward of patient toil. Several al these screens had them but they were remaining iz already been bought when I

have an opportunits of enjoying the shop so that everyone might

appreciation of decoration which is they are all marked by the fine them. Each one is different, but

No woman will venture out mora- ing or evening without her ac a main as the French call it, the little bag which bolds all thoar tries without which she cannot face the world.

The sac à main has become not only a necessity but a definite part

of the toilette." and the smart

Trousseau undies, of course, os supy an important place in the purchases of the modern bride, and

with them are bought the frocks, woman may have a dozen or they are the foundation But at costs, hats and shoes for which more to suit every mood, necessity the last when the main baring is the hall mark of good Japanese)

and costume. But fashions in, baga.

as in everything else move with thee, there remain those few lovely, and on them all is the pulsating luxurics without which no bride

spring of life. feels her trousseau complete. The wise girl leaves them to the last, when the romance, and thrill of getting her things together bas somewhat waned.

A charming Autumn fashion, with a double breasted coat made of fine flannel in red or green worn with a white killed skirt. The knotted | scarf which is, of course, white giver

a very smart finish.

The very special night gown, the foolish lovely boudoir wrap, and one more dance dress, bought for a whim and pot included in the original lists, perhaps give more pleasure than all the earlier pur- chases. I saw a little bed jacket in Lane, Crawford's that secreed as if it had been designed for a fairy. princess, or a young bride on ber honeymoon, and made by fairy fingers. Blush rose crêpe de chine, trimmed with tiny tucks, and bor-. dered by wheels of finely tucked net-edged with valenciens! Just a whispy cobweb of a garment but also fine and dainty with its hand stitchery and its tiny trim- ming flowers of crêpe, that no woman could resist it, or man the girl who wears it.

And for that one last evening. dress I saw a pink georgette, on the very full skirt and the long straight bodice on which were vandyke! insets of silver face, That for the typical English girl; for her darker sister a lovely and yet simple trock of gold lace, cut with a fairly high waist and a circular skirt, and worn over a sea green georgette slip. I have chosen these two frocks because they are definite- ly youthful without being too girlish for the newly married woman, simple enough to wear for a tête à tête dinner in the new home and still amart enough for hotel or dance wear

BY THE WAY.

COLD

Nidas-With typhoons about the nights are apt to be quite astonishingly cold, and blankets

hour; last year's or even last sea and cider down are being re original with its lonte side pancle A new Autumn coal, mart and son's bag may just fail to be "right Laidlaw's lovely fleecy blankets going a waistcoat effect, and neat. quisitioned. I saw at Whiteaway,

fastening.

with the newest dress.

made of lambs wool merino and The newest bags are envsiope bound with white satin, and they shape, although a few pochettes have also got the popular "Early One four fold screen shows a fox boxes and Gladstone bags are

warm blankets from $18.50 a pair emerging from the undergrowth of. also appearing. The envelope bag bathing gowns have now been in a lake. It is dark with the small BATHING GOWNS.Smart French bamboos and thistles that borders which is nearly square is a good cuded in Pamela's sale at half price. moon faintly illuminating sky and deal more capacious than it aphs taken so firm a hold on the fur on the animal's back, and the LACE Dazas LENGTHx-Tinsel lace water, and picking out the bristling pears, and is certainly very chic. Indeed chic is the hall mark of the mode, that I was pleased to find it feathers of the geese which he has new bags received by Powell's this being sold in dress lengths at disturbed feeding. This embroidery weck. Many of them have an Foboomulls this week. The pat definitely employed for a decora almost tailored appearance if one terns, which are designed actors the tive purpose is a picture as vivid can use such a term in connection width of the material are very love as any painted with the braal. with leather or moire, and they are ly and it would be a simple matter One listens to the slow creeping of quita definitely designed as acces to made a really chic frock from the fox, to the cracking of little sories of the Antama mode,

any of these laces. There was one twigs under his feet, and one hears There is for example & black pattern in both black and gold and the sudden frightened crica of his moire envelope with a strap of particularly dainty. The tinsel was

black and silver, which I though pr dark violet ailk running across

That is one picture. Another is and another of the same material running from either selvedge, and across the dull bronze of a similar worked in long narrow vandykes of a bubbling stream which winds bordered with a Barrow trap of of course more elaborate and wider screen. The stream is bordered by apple green kid. The combination for the hem, than the neck line, reeds and small bright leaved of navy blue moiré and a scarlet band or narrow border is also very another lovely pattern has a double bushes, and in its shallows a hent smart, and I thought a fairly large ved border of gold at the foot of sparrows, are bathing, twittering bag of brown Russian leather which and just a slight embroidery of gold and preening themselves. Perhaps had a doable strapping of beige kid at the other selvedge.

the most unusual of the collection very neat and practical Two large

is a zareen on which great sun flowers, drawn as it growing in a old-gold ground. It is simple and cottage garden; are worked on an forceful, and full of the charm and fragrance of the open fr

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bags of the gladstone" type, one

There are other screens less

almost large enough to be consider The more lined half of the bag is ed luggage, are made of imitation fitted with mirror comb and powder snake skin. The larger has a divi box and is the sde a main, the other tion in the middle and is lined on half being for those importand the one side of it with moard and trifies that one mustéarry on original in conception but equally on the other with soft beige kid. journey, papers, pasiport etc. A charming, on which cascades of There is also the usual inner purse bag of this description would be cherry blossom bloom on silvery compartment which opens very wide invaluable on a journey; it is light grounds or chrysanthemums on and is divided into two, for money in weight amet, amazingly capt and tickets, or perhaps jewellery.cious, and abore all scientifically (Continued at foot of neth colum.) designed

black. But one and all are lovely, and not only that bat eminently

nitable for room decoration,

LUXURY WITH ECONOMY.

For Summer and early Autumn wear the

new stock of luxurious goods. from India, China and Japan at

POHOOMULL BROTHERS

are unrivalled in the Colony.

Art Embroidered Persian Coats for Evening wear.

Also Silk Embroidered Shawls very appropriate for Autumn and Winter.

Do YOUR SHOPPING AT

POHOOMULLS.

SALE

50 % Discount

on Summer Frocks and Hats.

For One Week Only from Monday, the 19th, until Monday, the 26th.

York Building,

Chater Road.

AT

THE SIGH

OF THE

LANTERN

Telephone C. 4854.

THE PIONEER SILK

STORE

Particularly invites your inspection

TO-DAY

of the attractive display of Metallic Shawls.

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